Laugh out loud

Happiness comes from doing the most important thing for you. It may be helping a person in need. Feeding a hungry child on the streets.

Spending time with your loved ones.

Finding new friends, like soulmates.

Watching a sitcom that gives you 30 minutes of laughter.

Watching an engaging television show.

Reading a good book.

Talking to interesting people.

Working

It doesn't really take a lot to be happy. Just sometimes, you just think of what your life is all about and you say that you're just good. Life is good. As God is.

What do you do when you have no job?

What do you do when you have no job? You just make things work out. I help out my mom. Help out my family. Go to church. Greet the neighbors. Connect with friends. Find new friends. Read the paper. Watch tv. These are all the things which can keep you busy, to make things matter. You have all the time in the world to do all the stuff that you wanted. You have valuable time in your hands and you can say that not everything that matters in life is a job. You just don't have money but you enjoy the time that you have with the people that matters to you. Life is an adventure.

God's will

I live with my mom. My life revolves in doing stuff for myself and taking care of my mom, spending time with relatives from time to time and doing surfing on the net with some friends. I think it is God's will that I spend my time with my mom for almost 12 years now, since my father died some 8 years ago. I am the moral support of my mom, through thick and thin. I think this is my divine mission. To be with my mom for almost all the time. For some reason, God didn't give me work, at least ones which I wanted so that I can spend time with my mom and support her all the way. There are times too when all the person I can reach for a day is only my mom or some neighbor or a few relatives of ours and that's it. No social life for that entails money allowance for gimmicks and outings. Just a few fellow churchgoers and that's it. I guess that's what you really call God's will. Other people reach out to a lot of people because of their families or their work. It's called God's will. Me, I sort of spend it with my mom alone and that's it. But there will come a time when I have to find somebody to be with, what if my mom dies or leaves me alone? I will have nobody and I don't want to be alone in this world. God give me a mission, please. And change me for the better. For all my misgivings in the past may He give me a new mission and a better self. I would always want to spend time with other people mostly with family and friends. At this time in my life, what I do now are things that matter to me until I am old. I am looking for forever friends. With this new mission from God, I will certainly have a new life, new relationships, new friendships.

Material things in this world

You shop and you shop and what will you do with all these stuff in your closet or in your house when you're gone. It cannot be used anymore by you for you cannot bring them to heaven. Everything is just temporary even if you accumulate all these stuff on this earth. They are all nothing. I guess what is important are the things that you have learned all your life, your contributions to other people, the friendships you have fostered, the conversations, the life you had.

When you receive money what do you do? Do you go straight to the store and purchase things? Me, when I receive money, it goes directly to food, magazines and books and clothes, very minimal and much just goes to my needs. It is just merely enough for my needs and a few things more. I do not buy expensive items anymore. I feel it is just a waste of money.

Finding work is kinda tough because I didn't want accounting. Whenever I apply somewhere, I hope, but unfortunately, it passes out on me. I keep on changing my ideas, my plans because you keep on hoping for the job to be yours but you always fail to get it. It's been 10-12 years and I am tired. God please let the HR and the would be employers explain to me what they have been doing to my resume. And so you see, I have not much option or not much money to splurge.

But I am happy.

I found out that material things are not the most important things in this world.

That what's more important are the things unseen, the treasures that God is giving to you.

I have learned to budget and handle my finances well because I now know that every peso counts.

And I have learned to spend on valuable things alone and not wasteful things.

I have learned to finish my food everytime.

And enjoy myself even with the little that I've got.

I keep on looking for employment but it doesn't come. I am not much into selling. And I don't know how to have a business yet. But I am working towards it. Everyday. And as you can see I can say that my life is a blast.

The expensive life or the simple life

I'd rather choose the simple life because, I have been there and have experienced it. The expensive life is overflowing and sometimes gone to waste. I surely do know how it is to have few and so I think we should not waste at all if there is abundance.

I miss my friends

I surely miss some of my friends. They have been close to my heart once upon a time in my life and I surely want to be with them one more time. They were there during the crucial moments of my life and they were there to support you when you were going through all sorts of things in your life. I was wondering how they are right now? They have become good friends to me. We share the same values in life such as religion and we talk about things that matter like life and current events. I wish I could be with them one more time.

How a day is done?

What do you do if you have nothing to be busy with? You have been forever looking for a job and it seems that time has passed you by and still you haven't found the opportunities. Me, I just go with my mom and her outings. I get to live by my mom. And if it isn't too much, I ask for a little amount of money just to go to the mall and do whatever stuff I can. As I have said, money making for me is like a drop of rain in the dessert, literally, my mind cannot form the process of earning money in my mind and so I have limited activities when it comes to my financial world and also in the not so financial aspects of my life. But no complaints. I am just doing the best I could and still deciding that the arts is better than accountancy. Wish that I could just deviate from that. Cause it's just hard to have the regrets in terms of career, the dissatisfaction of not attaining what you want, what your heart says you do just because people do not trust in you anymore nor listen or give you a chance. You just always hope for the best!

My secret potential

Sales. I know I haven't practiced selling ever since then, since childhood, but from the way I have experienced it in my life, I think I have a secret potential in sales. First, I like people. Sales is a relationship process with your customers. You should like to be talking to other people, offering your products and creating a relationship with them. Fulfilling their needs. All i ever sold was some computer products which I have referred to an actual sales executive for my mom's firm (she was an employee of the firm and part-owner) and I did it because of helping her and not for profit. I received a commission of a measly 200-500 for that one computer and the rest of the purchases for that account, I haven't received any commissions anymore because it was handled by the manager himself. Some cosmetic products and foreign exchange. I am not the indulgent, determined type who goes into selling. I just take everything in stride and you know I'm not on the pressure to sell something. But I am definitely interested in it and definitely going into it.

There are those who are really good at it and I envy them. I just wish I share some of their talents. I have read books on sales and it seems very interesting and rewarding but sometimes, I prefer to learn it hands on and in practice rather than just read about it.

I've learned one thing, commissions are great to earn.

Do not be money bound

Can you actually do it? For me, it is really a great challenge to make money, maybe for others it isn't. It's been 12 years and so it doesn't help that people do not entrust you with responsibility like offer a job to you or any money making plan. Is it possible to not be money bound. In every move, you need money. You cannot go out of your house without money so you need to figure out how to get them. Just any ideas. I can write. I can teach accounting. I can accept accounting jobs freelance. I can accept full time accounting jobs. I can sell. Just anything. I can pursue my big dreams. I can connect with other people. I can just connect, connect and connect. As I have said before, if I had a million friends, I would never go hungry or grow poor without any material blessings. The concept of sharing has got to rub on me when you have lots of friends. I think one main cause of poverty is isolation. Isolation from other human beings of this world. If you've got lots of friends, opportunities come around easily. They come knocking at your doors. Plus, you get to share what they have. In all honesty, you need not much money to keep up. Just something minimal. But if you're gonna enjoy the luxury you need much money. And some of the most pressing needs in this life are expensive like cars, homes, food, quality food, services, medical bills, insurance and businesses. So you gotta have money, poverty is not an excuse. All the more, you need to exercise your power to work, to alleviate your poverty. But when you lose all hope, just don't lose all the hope you've got, you gotta leave something for yourself and your family and get up and exercise your working muscles. And people could be kind, they can help you if you are in dire need. Just call. So now, do you have ideas on where to get that moolah. Just keep on reaching for it!

Some ideas on how to enjoy life:

Go to mass everyday and ask for 150 a day allowance for transpo and food. Mondays to Fridays.

Volunteer to do something helpful for the needy, one that is your passion and interest.

Connect with the world.

Work, it is a divine responsibility.

Take a hint: What would have been your course in life?

I am forever acknowledging that fact that I am an accountant. But I hated it so much, it stuck. For the longest time, I have been applying to accounting job openings but to no avail, I am always unsuccessful in it. Honest to goodness, I don't know what God wants of me. If this is not for me then, at least can He give me another thing, something else to get my hands busy with, for blessings to overflow to me? My taking up accounting is just one side of the puzzle. It is already a given. But to insist on it is something else. I think it is a mistake to insist on it. It is like a violation of my heart. A violation of my mind, my spirit. If it weren't for the money, I would definitely be writing. If I have food on the table all the time, I would be writing. I would be writing about people what else? That is the most interesting thing to write about. I would be writing blogs, and scripts and books and cds. I would definitely be a writer.

But since money is involved, I was always wondering if business would be a given. I know my interest in business is somehow involved in my study of accounting. Sometimes, it has the same feeling as doing accounting that is why I question myself if business is really my passion.

Maybe, i could find other jobs that are equally rewarding financially like playing billiards or taking acting jobs. But that's all I could think of. I better decide if I am still gonna do it. Sooner. Not later. Time is ticking. Anyway, I would like to think that I have all the time in the world to do and accomplish my dreams. But I guess there are certain things that can be hard to do when you're much older so I have to think about that too. Anyway, goodluck to me again. And goodluck to all who are chasing their dreams in this life.

Goodluck to being a writer.

Goodluck to being a businessperson.

Goodluck to being an athlete.

Goodluck to being an actress.

To count the change

I still count the change. For me a peso or 5 pesos can go a long way like for tricycle fares or gulaman from a siomai kiosk or the change of 5 pesos in a purchase of clothes or other necessities in a mall. I count the change. 1 peso can go a long way like if the cheapest food I can buy is still affordable by my wallet. I like change coz as they say if there's no change there is no 1 peso and there will be no 100 pesos.

With change, I can buy my favorite newspapers and siomai or a candy bar or bottled juice drink. With change, I can still go home to my family without running short of money. There's so much I can do with change that I am thankful that God gives me change to spend. Could you imagine, 200 of those loose peso change amounts to my daily allowance to go to a mall for three to four hours, not even a whole day. That's how expensive it is to go out nowadays, so it is very important to find a job that will give you those change to spend .

I know I am guilty. I want to earn big. Sometimes, I am not content with change when it comes to earnings. But maybe, I can change my philosophy on that. Maybe, from now on I can start acknowledging change as income. Maybe, I can sell processed meat, rtws, perfumes, car shampoo. Just some of my ideas. I just don't know how to start them because my mom would never (ever) go into business with me. Just because she doesn't like business. For her, business is like gambling, a bad vice or habit to quit. She's got a negative thinking about business. She foresees the problems and never acknowledges the earning potential. She's forever the employee. And so, we'll never come into terms with each other. I am the businessminded type but can't seem to start anything, maybe because I lack money, I lack the exposure, I lack partners. That would be my downside. But if I have money, I would definitely be in business. I hope I do not lose all the opportunities just by waiting in vain for the one opportunity. There is no perfect condition to start a business, you just go to start one. I hope I can start one soon. I hope I can keep my word in this blog.

Use your gifts

The only way for people to get out of poverty is to use their gifts. God gave gifts to people and so they must use them to serve the kingdom, to serve the community of God. There are so many talented people in the world like singers, dancers, actors and actresses, athletes, businesspeople, investors, doctors, lawyers, reporters, priests and preachers. It's good to know different successful people who are well-known so that people can imitate what they have done in the world. People like Warren Buffett or Bill Gates, John Gokongwei or Henry Sy, inventors and others who are admirable people to imitate. The only difference that they have is that they continue to do their thing everyday and they are successful in it.

I hope I can be successful too. I look up at job ads to find out the different job openings in our country. I hope to find more avenues to open up to me where I can make use of my talents and for that reason find a job to be successful at.

For me it's writing, business and religion.

I hope I can find more opportunities in these disciplines.

A person who has musicality can become a musician.

A person who has talent in acting can become an actor or an actress.

A person who has intelligence can study and break into the field that he/she wanted.

A person who has talent in business can be successful in business.

A person with good communication skills can become a communicator or a writer.

The opportunities are endless.

All you've go to do is to open yourself up to these opportunities.

Hope to God in all things

I just hope that i have all the answers in the world. People carry their own problems in the world and if you could just give answers to all the problems in the world then I would gladly help them. I have my share of problems too and I think I would be able to solve them by gaining financial independence. I have to clear out my schedule in order to do the things that I am planning. Aside from full time work, I would like to really get involved in real estate and so I am making this a long term career. I hope that God would arrange my schedules coz just recently I signed up to some writing jobs but I don't know if I will get accepted in these jobs. I don't know if I am able to do all these things but it seems that I am running after money once again and so I have to prioritize things.

I have to also work for my own independence. I hope somebody teaches me how to find money fast without going into monkey business. My deadline is sort of 2010, that there's gotta be a change that will happen to me in this year. At least I gotta keep trying until I achieve my goals. Money should not stop me. I have written in the past blogs about my plans and so I hope I am able to do all those. What I am really after is the money that I am gonna be making.

People have many problems in the world and so somehow you just want to serve God and find meaning to your life and to your day by involving yourself to the lives of other people you want to help. But money is my main concern and so by doing a job, I would certainly meet people and have new friends.

Plus, I gotta be talkative and learn how to deal with all types of personalities including my family and strangers. I just wish all my inhibitions will be gone so that I can be this magnetic personality that I dream of. There is this one exercise before which asks what one thing that if you change in yourself will have this positive impact in your life. I guess, my personality, my being a go getter and being positive towards things. Being good to other people and not having inhibitions. I just wish to have a changed life after this.

Money has to come. And so I would imitate those who find it easy to find money. Some change has got to happen to me this 2010 or if not I will not stop trying even if it's beyond 2010. We've got one life and so if I can make use of all my life to keep on trying then I would not stop no matter what happens to me. Everyday is a new day, a new challenge to overcome. A new day to offer up to God everything in our lives.

You do not know exactly what will happen in your life and so I must learn how to accept these changes that happen in my life so often. Change management. I got to learn to jump on opportunities too without taking so long and learn to time manage everything and keep my schedules just free and open and not so thick and busy so that I will still be open to God's promptings and calls during my life.

What will make you happy?

Sometimes, you go on in life and it's as if there is something missing. I guess, you just have to involve yourself in the lives of other people around you. There are so many people around the world, if only you could love them all and share your self with them and God's love you will not be lonely anymore.

I have this dream that I am not working on and it seems like this is the missing link. I am not an actress and an athlete because I have decided not to go for them anymore, not now.

But it seems like my happiness is totally dependent on achieving my dreams. I have not achieved these two dreams and that is why I am wondering maybe they are truly the missing link in my life.

I've had broken dreams before like not being able to study law and not being able to study medicine and I thought I would be able to do that. But unfortunately, as I have already said in my blog, I think I don't have the skill to make money so i couldn't afford a medical education and cannot be a doctor.

Before I used to think that anything that I put my heart and mind to I'll be able to achieve but now it seems impossible and that is why I am at a loss.

All I could think of right now is to have a job so that my life will move forward already, coz it had been stuck at least that's the way i feel it for the longest time.

That's why I have this blog.

So that I can celebrate being myself, being me.

And hoping that I meet friends along the way.

What's your passion?

I have yet to discover mine, but if things are just right then maybe my passion is writing, communication arts, acting, showbiz, advertising, films, videos, people in life, magazines, books, media, internet, communication. That's my big thing.

And then, there's business.

And then, there's religion.

Making each day count

What do successful people do with their lives, their time on earth? For some people, it is easy for them to achieve the things that they achieve. God blesses them or is in partnership with them in their dreams. I have been unemployed for so long, I am sometimes asking myself where have all the years gone? It is not my own doing that I am unemployed now, well maybe partly because I declined 4 job offers. But those were honest mistakes, honest experiences which I am proud of to be my decisions and I have never stopped finding opportunities for me to work. It is just unfortunate that people are hard to believe, to trust in a crummy resume that I have that only states 2 or so years of experience in my total of 15 years of being a graduate from college. What do you do if one day totally depend on you for some money? I realize I am not able to reach out to other people or enrich myself with relationships with people I am supposed to meet in my life because basically they are at work and me not. I just stay at home and budget the small amount that my mom gives to me to budget over a week's stretch or a month's stretch of going out to apply primarily for a job rather than just strolling around the city without any appointment to go to. It is a pretty hard life because at my age i wanted to meet people so that I could start a family later and the time I felt is now and not later. That's why I gotta make money. I guess I will not write if my dreams don't push through yet for what will I write about. I sometimes take into consideration the actions pertaining to my dreams and actually doing it and later on ponder on it when it progresses. What if you call on God and he doesn't answer back, He doesn't give you the blessings. I believe that can happen, as it happened to me for 10 or 12 years now. I know my blessings come in the form of food, clothing, shelter, magazines, books, internet, cable, and things I am able to do like study, write, go to church, have good family support and me supporting them likewise all the more. So why am I complaining? it's just that sometimes when you don't have money, you do not meet the people you are supposed to meet and how are you gonna do that? How are you gonna make your day count? How are you not gonna waste time or a day staying at home, doing nothing? It is a vicious, terrible, mind-numbing cycle and I just wish it was over. It is easy to say things such as go on and never surrender when you have what you want but when it's tough then your faith is in question? How do you make your day count when you are penniless. Pray! That's the answer. Here are my ideas so far for that problem. Go out everyday and go to mass with P150 in your pocket, do not eat anymore, just buy cheap food and drink and go home, at least you hear the word of God and you receive Communion. That's a whopping P600 a week except Wednesdays when you go to mass with your mom in Baclaran. Go to mass on Sundays! Buy newspapers everyday so you've got the feeling that you are connected with the world and you are updated, the spreadsheets which cost I think P15-18 and the tabloid P10 for my mom. Save money to buy a book. Or go out selling with an estimated P6000 for allowance but you have to have sandwiches like tuna or corned beef or hotdog or tocino, two sandwiches for baon and drink so that all you have to shell out is transpo fees estimated at P100 or a little bit more. Try to find some accounting clients. Write, offer your writing like scripts, books, children's books and romance books. Even writing jobs the ones that I have applied to, but they are unsure yet. All in all, go out everyday and find the people that you want to share your life with for the rest of your life here on earth.

Patch up negative feelings

Sometimes, you can't help but think about negative thoughts and negative feelings. But that shouldn't be so. I you feel negative about a person just ignore it and continue on your way and be happy about your life. Do things which you think are important for your well being and avoid making other people a reason for every action you do. It is not right that you go about living in this world with so much impatience, ill feelings towards others and negative thoughts. Pray for the other persons in your life that need praying and let God solve all your problems. Do some action for yourself, do what is right for yourself and never be a judge for others. God sees everything and He is in control of every little aspect in your life and so you gotta trust Him. Be intelligent enough to do what is necessary so that you will be happy. Do what God wants you to do. Personally, I think God wants me to have a job even though He made it harder for me because for ten years all I received were rejections from employers. I am mature enough to feel this way that something is missing from me because I do not engage in paid work in a day. I write for a blog so I consider that as work without pay and I also take care of my family spiritually and emotionally and physically so that also counts for my work in the vineyard. But according to world's standards, that is still unpaid work. I get my pay by the food and lodging I get from being my mother's child. But, actually, something is missing in me when I don't have a job and so even if it's hard I gotta try everyday to make something of myself so that I will have respect and the dignity of work. For others, it is easy but for me it takes a little bit harder because it takes a lot of time to apply for employment here in our country. Something's gotta happen to me and you need to have a strategy in life like a response to God's call for whatever He wants to do with my life. May God bless me always!

Patch up your loneliness

I heard a sermon from a priest while I was attending mass that no one should feel lonely because Jesus is with them. If you find yourself with a mission from Him, certainly you will not feel lonely but in fact you will feel blessed by Jesus because of the mission that He gives for you to do. Help and serve other people and love them with all your heart as you love God. This is what's most important. God wants us to do something in ourlives and He guides us to do His will always. We must find that mission that He wants for us to do. Do it lovingly. Diligently. Wisely. Intelligently. God cares for all of us and He loves us very much. He gives a lot to us even if we have problems. We should learn to solve our problems and be mature enough to face them always and as a result grow in the love of God as we grow in our lives here on earth. If we find that meaning in our lives, it is impossible to grow lonely for it is God who is the center of our lives and not some thing or some one but only God.

Lots of things, so little time

I've just signed up for two writing jobs. I hope I get accepted. But unless again they accept me, I'll be having no work. It is such a pity because I hope and get frustrated again when they don't positively respond. Anyway, nothing is sure in this world. There are so many alternatives, the only question is will they respond to you. I hope they do. Very much into real estate, forex, mutual funds, other items to sell. At least planning to do. And I sort of promised myself that I will do accounting. I am also sort of thinking into entering the sales force for insurance for bank and insurance company mergers for a salaried job. I hope I can get to do all these things and learn a lot from them. In the mean time, I have cars to buy, homes to purchase, studies to engage in to help me in my career, friends to meet, and expenses to pay for. I just hope I can manage everything and stay on top of everything and everything goel well for me. Agressiveness is very important. As well as faith and courage. And joy is important too. At the end of the day, it is always what have you done for other people? What have you done for God? And what have you done for yourself that really matters.

Abundance

I know I am enjoying this unlimited internet time, but I don't want to waste it. I remember when I have to pay P20/ hr of internet time and I don't want to waste a single centavos for not using internet when it's on even for a few minutes. Of course, sometimes you rest, and you check your e-mail more often right now, and you can write more on your blog like for hours, and y ou don't need to write down every single detail you want to remember in the websites you go to like job details. But i try to refrain from it. Cause it is still wasting internet time and I don't want to be guilty of that. So many people do not have access to the internet and so we should be wise in making use of it even if now it becomes unlimited and you can surf all you can surf just the way you wanted to. I figured out there's gotta be a way to have free and unlimited supply of food too. Maybe by owning your restaurant and be in the food business and enjoy unlimited supply of food for your own consumption. Maybe by becoming a dealer involved in the business of food you can enjoy discounts and have a hefty discount for the food that y ou buy. Or maybe have a friend who is into the food business and ask for free food. That can happen! Maybe is you have a food business then you wouldn't have to pay so much for food on the table. Just like in other items. You can get discounts if you are a dealer or you are involved in that kind of business. In insurance too or real estate, you can be an agent and at the same time a purchaser of the product and get the commission which would act as a discount to what you paid for. If you have a business of books you can have lots of books to read and you can have them all for free because you are engaged in that kind of business. Isn't that a treat for you? And if you have lots of friends, you get invited to a lot of parties and sometimes you can get free drinks and tickets to events just because you are friends with those people. I really wish to live the rich life!

As of now, I have unlimited cable tv and unlimited internet time. I wish to use them well for my sake and for work, too. So that nothing will be wasted.

I wish I could engage in sales too for free and without splurging bucks.

I am hoping that my dreams will come true soon enough and that my happiness will be complete.

My secret mission

This is just gonna be probably short. But do you know Melinda Gordon of Ghost Whisperer? I just wish sometimes, I could be like her like helping other people in the spiritual sense. If I could play a character in a movie, I would play one like that of Melinda Gordon. I am so fascinated by it that I watched the marathon during the Holy Week. I am not saying that I want to be exactly like her but I think my secret mission in this world is to study Theology, masters and phd and then know more about God and then teach to other people. Wouldn't that be cool?

Ask and you shall receive

I just watched from EWTN some very powerful words to live by in the present. If only people are gonna ask from God then everything will go their way the way they wanted it to become and experience their life's dreams. Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened up to you. That is one of my favorite verses in the bible because it speaks of God's providence to His children. I just don't know why He hasn't given me any. I don't want to be dependent anymore to my family. Sometimes, you tend to lose some self-respect when you go on in your life without a job and your family does not understand you because God keeps on blessing them while you are struggling, striving, having a hard time to make something for yourself and even for your family. When this happens, you just have to have patience, because they don't understand you at all and they just wish to be shallow and it seems like money talks and you don't have a thing to do with money. It seems very hard, but I need to do something in order for me to have something for myself. If God really provides for His children, then please give me something or at least teach me how to do it. You gave us an assurance that You will provide for us if we would only ask for blessings. There are certain things that one can ask from God such as a continuous good quality of life you are living right now until the future, self-respect, peace, love and understanding, joy and happiness. I will keep on praying and believing that all will turn out well, i will continue serving God with all my heart and mind and soul just to praise Him and for everything to turn out well in my life.

Dream businesses

Here is a list of my dream businesses:

Pre school
Tutorials
Gift shop
Book shop
Food shop
Restaurant
T-shirt
Garments
Video production
PR
Photography
Car shop
Car accessories
Car wash
PC shop
Cellphone shop

Just with minimal capital

To go bigtime:

Real estate
Banking
CPA firm
Various enterprises

What more can I say?

The question is how to go to that point when I am already successful?

That's the road that I would have to discover.

In the mean time, I will read books, blogs, attend seminars, meet businesspeople, work in companies until I learn everything!!

I have read twice or thrice in different sources that you gotta work to learn first than to earn, then when you already know that's the time you will earn. Do what you love, and the money will follow because you are doing what you love.

I am writing down my dreams in my blog, but everyday I will try to work on them by taking my very first few baby steps towards my dreams, my businesses.

Before, I was content on asking money from my parents. At 34, rather a mid-age for me to start on dreaming, I figured this is the time of my maturity to ask about things in life like working on what you love, which is what's important and earning that important bucks. It must be both. And it should always involve you purpose in life. Your gifts. What you love. I always used to say use your gifts so that you will not be poor. I have started saying that during 2002. Now, it's 2010. It's about my time of maturity to take things seriously and gain some ground in doing business, in working.

Who are the people in your neighborhood, they're the people that you meet each day, as the Sesame Street song goes about the different workers you have in your neighborhood. Very profound. Very profound. When I was a kid.

I just remember that when I was very young what I remembered doing that I like was drawing or designing and writing poems. I'd like to put them on paper and display it on our shelf.

And then, in elementary and high school, playing rounders and acting in class.

I like Science, too and the academics and had high grades with them. But what I enjoyed the most, I think are the extracurricular activities. Like choral speaking where we won first prize in an interschool competition. I also competed in quiz bees within the school and interschool.

So what's my life purpose? And how am I gonna achieve that? I think my life purpose is in arts, communication and sports and business. Those are the four major areas.

I remember when I was a kid, I wanted to be super rich. As to provide for my family. It is pretty frustrating that I don't do that now because God hasn't given me a job for the past 10 years and it is pretty frustrating. I don't know what they are looking for in a company. Anyway, I go on and on and just determined to go on and never giving up.

These are my dreams. I dream to be successful. And it is very important for me to do so. Very, very important. I just wish I would figure out how. Because when nobody gives you the chance, it becomes very, very hard. Anyway, I believe that everybody has his own load to carry in this world. Some carry light, some carry heavy. I think mine is just quite big enough for me, and my responsibilities in this world that God gave me to carry. It is very important that I triumph on this.

I hope that God will teach me how to become a businessperson. I think it is a gift.

If not, I hope He teaches me my purpose in life. Because, when it seems to be very hard, you tend to give up on it and try to shift ways.

When you have nothing, you can't give away anything. So I hope, I'd have something to give.

If there are steps to take, it is definitely going to people who are already there. Like attending writing classes, or joining writing clubs and learning all you can about writing, about communications.

Learn and then earn.

That's the key.

God bless us all! And keep us in His loving care.

Dreams list

I can't help but think of some of the dreams that I have that I just want to do for the sake of doing it.

Make a comic book.
Design t-shirts.
Paint on a canvas
Write songs
Make movie scripts.
Photograph people and the world.
Make a narrative of films
Write books
Write poems and stories
Design furniture and houses
Design bags
Make clothes coz I can't draw
Design shoes and sandals, but I'm not much into drawing.

You just can't find time to do them or you don't have the right materials with you.
All I do is write because I have a laptop and an unlimited supply of internet connection.

Build businesses.

Chess
Billiards
Dancing
Exercise

Singing
Playing the guitar
Playing the drums
Playing the violin
Playing the piano

All I really wish is that I can sell my writing and so that I can make money. I really love the arts and communication and sports and business. This makes my life whole and happy. And complete. That is why when I watch tv for 10 hours a day, it would just be fine than working in accounting even for 6 hours. Yek!

If money element is into this then it would be like this:

Real estate
Cars
PC, Cellphone and airplane
Banking
Travel and tours
Fashion
Hairdressing
Cuinary and hospitality
Network and telecommunications

What is important for me then? To earn money. Even if it does not involve sales, just business. Doing it now is the answer to the problems. Estimated earnings: Millions.

Going into sales

Call it what you want. Customer service, marketing, sales, negotiations, business development. You name it. It all falls under the same job category. Its sales! Do you believe that everybody can be a salesman. I believe so. If not then why are you born into this world. Everybody has convincing powers, at least to their families, relatives, classmates and officemates. The only difference that salespersons have from those who are not salespersons is that they made it their calling, their profession. But that's it. Anybody can be a salesman. That's what I believe. We need to convince our parents from time to time of things we want to ask from them like a new toy, or a new dress or shoes, or electronic gadget. We need to talk to classmates about our projects and extracurricular activities or when just having fun. We need to talk to our officemates about certain business we have in the company or when off office hours during our leisure time. We all make convincing in some parts of our lives and we do it because we live in this world. We are alive. This is like a very popular activity that we do amongs ourselves and we keep on doing it because we are in this world. We need things, we need to live, we need faith, we need courage and we need association. We need relationships. I somehow feel the difference now that I am considering going into sales about myself, about my personality. To be more outgoing, to be more relational, to have more friends, to have more associates. And thus, to have more sales income. It is a very rewarding career. A very satisfying activity. I hope I can give more to this profession. I hope to make the big income this calling promises to its adherents. I hope to serve others by being a professional salesman. And I think to embark on this activity is really indeed very exciting. And it opens up your world to a whole new world there is around us like I can continue now my plans to go on with my studies grad or undergrad. I can pursue the career I wanted cause I have enough money already to go to billiard classes or to go into acting. I can purchase a car or a batch of cars. I can now have my own home. I can now travel. I can share my money with my family and with the needy people. I can establish some foundations. And I can embark more on businesses to further my ambitions of becoming an entrepreneur and become rich. Selling is really a rewarding activity. I hope I can learn all I can about it and enjoy it while I do it. Hope I can meet people too and relate with them and forge a long-term relationship with them. If I do this everyday, if this becomes a habit then everything would just become easy and satisfying in the long run and it won't be far until I attain success. I would do it for myself. And that is very important. There are so many reasons to do it and the time to do it is now. Not tomorrow or the next day but now. No need for procrastination. If I find myself still groping in the dark in this field of sales then so be it but I won't stop until I become a very good salesperson. Thanks to God, I see myself as such and thanks for the dreams! I hope all this motivation is enough for me to finally achieve something and earn some money for my needs and other people's needs. We all need to work in order to survive and for the reason that you have to have some self-respect when you indeed work. I hope I find a passion always and see the advantages of going into sales. And I hope to meet a lot of friends along the way and get involved in their lives as you strive to make a life for your own.

To make things great

You surely want to think that all your life's problems will be solved. But unless you do something everyday, it's like there stuck to you if you don't do anything about them. Money is a problem but not everything is about money. Sometimes, it is just tiring to think about money, you know that it will be solved too as long as you make actions God will bless you. But emotional problems, relational problems are a bigger, tougher problem than money problems and so I hope I don't meet them. It all comes from having a great relationship with God and you put that faith that love to the love that you have for other people. It's much easier that way. and life would be great. Some things that I need to do in order for my life to be great is to have relationships, lots of relationships with other people. During the day, just try to love people more and connect with them with whatever form or size they may be. I'd like to think of things I can do even without money. Things that are free. Things that doesn't need money. Helping other people, engaging in foundations, giving free gifts to other people, to loved ones, blogging, writing, working, you can do it for free.

How to get rich

I've read a lot of texts about getting rich but it seems like I am still not choosing anything to start my way to financial independence. It seems like they are not teaching it really on those reading materials. You get ideas but they are so perfect and they seem to be really good in business that for somebody like me who has not experience in business, it seems to be very hard still. You'll get lots of ideas but when I think about it, it is quite hard because when you're actually gonna start you think of things the realities such as the amount of capital to be paid, the location of the office you want to be partners with, the work hazards such as the deliveries and tranportation, the handling of raw materials, the permits to establish stores, big investments for equipments sometimes not calculated in with the initial prices and so on. It doesn't form in my mind. Unlike writing, you just sit on your chair and you start writing. And you type away with the ideas that come into your mind. Before, I used to make it a problem the purchase of a laptop and internet connection that is unlimited or for a minimal cost just to pursue my writing. But because of an uncle I discovered Blogger and started blogging since August of last year 2009. And because of my sister, she has given me a laptop for my family's usage and now I am free to write away my thoughts and ideas. So you see, accomplishing one feat especially if you need money to start something, a project, is really seldom and you need a lot of sweat and tears before you can start something. So what I am saying is that there are still a lot of stumbling blocks before you can achieve something. When they say that it is easy to get money, for me it is quite hard because maybe because I would rather be around people doing my stuff, getting into business so that I don't grow cold of loneliness and solitude, and learn with others so that it would be more fun and engaging. I wonder how other people do it. Why is it easy for them to be financially free. Probably, they earn a million a month and they can walk the metropolis so confidently they won't collapse of hunger much shameful and worse of lack of money in their pockets while walking as I sometimes feel cause you are trying to connect two locations the one you're coming from and the one you're going to. So, it isn't easy. But that's my personal opinion. I guess, it is also kinda hard especially if 10 years had passed and nothing happened to you, by this time, you are already tired. So many things have happened in those 10 years and you have surpassed some opportunities which you didn't mean to do but it happened and they were mistakes but you know you let them happen because you were young and you were learning. I just wish it is really as easy as it sounds. Some people find it easy to earn a million, for me it is still a challenge. I can count the money, but I don't want to move a finger because when I start moving the coins come but not the bills and it's like a trickle of rain. But i got to start on something. And then, there's the challenge to sell something. Others are very good in sales why can't I. I have an idea, and have yet to discover but I know I will be a good marketer because I like it and I like dealing with people and like relationships and also like making deals with other people. I don't know how other people sell, but they just do and I hope they can share with me their secrets. I know I can accomplish a lot in business if I learn the ropes of selling and marketing which seem to be easy for some people. And it seems interesting when you read about it. Hope it comes easy. If I have the liberty of money then going into business will be much easier because I don't have to worry about lack of money. I definitely can earn money from a business if only I have the liberty of money. If money is not the question, it seems easy to manage a business and make it profit. I hope I can do this and do this diligently. Maybe, that's the challenge of starting a business, you gotta start with what you have and make it grow. I hope I can now learn how to work and to love work. Sometimes, when you think of entrepreneurship, it seems so small and you tend to forget your dream when you were a child to do something big. that was my dream. It was a big dream. I hope to do it one day. There's also the urgency to have money because everyday you need money in order to eat, to survive in this world. i hope I can start having money now. I am not sure about the steps I would be doing unless somebody gives me money to work on something. it's been a long time. Isn't that supposed to be how things should be done? Getting paid. God, please don't make this imbalance anymore in my life.

Is everything possible in life?

Here are a few dreams I would like to be possible in my life.
I want to have a million friends. I want to be rich and have gigantic businesses. I want to have a family and kids. I want to have peace. I want to have good family relationships. I want to have foundations to help the needy people. I would consider myself complete when I do have these accomplishments under my belt. In the meantime, if everything is based on the doing then I would certainly do everything everyday in my power to work and work until I achieve my dreams. Every day is a chance to work on your dreams and I thank God for it.
Relationships are important in achieving one's dreams. No one does it alone. So here's all you've got and do it repetitively. Get a taste of everything that is given before you and do it good. Work through God's grace and do whatever is necessary to achieve God's will for our lives.
If everyone has an open heart, willing to give, everything would be easy.

To love oneself

Love is the greatest thing of all. Without love for oneself how can you go on in your life? We all get our love from God. He is the source of love. From such love we get our strength. Everyday we need to fill up our batteries to be able to face the trials that come our way. Without love how can we go on. How can we say to the world that we can. We must be able to do our share of God's work in the world with the love that we receive from the Father. and from that comes our happiness. To be able to attain such contentment, such achievement of finally attaining your goal of finding God's purpose for you. You wouldn't be able to achieve that without love for oneself. Love gives us courage to go on and face life's troubles. We need love to communicate with other people in union with God our Creator. We need love to relate with one another. And to love oneself we learn how to sacrifice for one another as God calls us to be. By loving oneself we open up ourselves to the love that God has for us and we see ourselves now as God sees us. As loving children of God. Full of potential. Full of love. Full of spirit. We are no longer mere creatures but sons and daughters of God. And when we love ourselves we experience how God loves us and we now value the importance of how God sees us. We are important for Him and in Him we can accomplish anything. God has given us all potential and we are like Him in the sense that we can accomplish great things as stewards of His gifts. Suddenly, we can make bridges to make connections, we can move mountains to topple problems, we can accomplish anything we put our minds into. We become happy. And that love because of God makes us complete in Him.

To ask for God's blessings

The world is full of God's blessings. But how can you have a share of those blessings? I guess, you have to find your way to the things that you like to do, your passions, your calling. And then, do them and engage in them and make use of those talents until you make something out of it and make some money. You need to find people who would help you achieve those dreams. Serve the others as you would serve Christ. have a piece of heaven here on earth by what you share with the others as your work, as Joseph's carpentry to provide for Jesus and Mary. There's gotta be a reason for me to be involved in business. My family, my parents were never into business, they were employees. And so, we didn't have any cars, or any colored tv and betamax at the start, never flew a plane for vacations, never lived in a big house. I am somehow reluctant to attach myself into business were it not for the Accountancy degree I gained from business school. But now, I don't have any idea on how to get a share of the blessings that is around. I am unlike Manny Villar or Manny Pangilinan, or Henry Sy or John Gokongwei who are really businessminded and can sell anything to anyone. I am even ashamed to sell. What can I do now? The following days would be most exciting because it is a path of discovery for me about what can I do with my financial goals as a young person who wants also to make it big time in this world. I want to be successful and I am willing to do whatever my mind comes up with to gain riches in this world and make use of my talents. I hope God will grant me my heart's desires which is to become rich in this world because I do not want to end up a street beggar who cannot answer for her needs. I want also to start gaining friends again and do this until the end of my life. I want to be able to do something good for others as I pass this avenue called life and learn all I can from other people who do it easily and in return teach also to others who may have a need for knowledge as I meet them down life's highway. Hopefully, God will give me something as He is the provider for all the needs of all the people in the world. You may just want to ask why others have so plenty and you only have a few. All in all, I will have to solve all these problems and make some money for my family in the long run. Hope I do well, as I commit to becoming a winner in this game of life.

How to discover one's calling in life?

Maybe my calling is not defined in communication arts. Maybe I am called to be a doctor, I just don't have money for a medical education. How do you explain that? Then, maybe i'll just be a businessman, with MBA, Masters in Entrepreneurship, Economics, Marketing or Financial engineering. Should I confine my happiness with what my money could afford? I guess not. It should not be. But I should at least learn how to earn a living and I gotta try everyday. I just got to. If there would be no food for the table, I would just market my accounting services. Sell a few items. I need to make money. Or maybe I can just go for my dreams and be a struggling writer or hit it big time with billiards. I guess what's stopping me is the what ifs. When you are growing older you tend to have analysis-paralysis and you just keep on wondering of the whys and the hows and not just do it unlike when you were young. At 34, I am very happy. My life is incomplete in so many ways, but I know I am very happy and everyday I work on what I think God has given me as assignments in this life. At the end of my life, I will be very happy to be welcomed by God and say to Him that I have done everything I can to the best of my abilities no matter how many mistakes I may have committed by trying to achieve what He wants me to achieve and because of that I knew I did His will. Some more dreams.. want to study law but I figured I have difficulty in reading law texts, still I want to study law even if I don't become a lawyer but once I finish law I know I am gonna be a lawyer, I just know that! Study medicine, if I have the money, study MBA and Masters in Entrepreneurship, Masters in Computer Science or Information Technology. Of course, i am not gonna study all of those. Just 2 or 3. Study cars and airplanes. Cooking, interior design, fashion design, photography and filmmaking. Then, I am complete.

The art of marketing

Some people do it on the market. There is a particular place for products to be shown and sold to other people. But sometimes, there is the not so obvious market which is probably everywhere there are people like homes, churches, offices, classrooms, parks, malls, just as long as there is a place where the seller can meet a potential buyer. That is the market. People just need to meet somewhere so that the products can be sold. Sometimes, in the coffeeshops, sometimes in restaurants. Sellers need to attract buyers so that their products can be sold. They need to speak in such an attractive, informative way that can help introduce to product to a buyer. They need to help the buyer undersstand the benefits of the product and add a little more like creating a good business relationship with the buyer. Selling is a service to the buyer. The seller needs to make good customer service to the buyer. Whatever is the need of the buyer the seller must attend to it. And when everything is covered then there would be no question that a sale can be made. Marketing is just a way where seller helps the buyer know more about the product and answer the needs of the buyer. The buyer must understand how the product would be helpful in the improvement of the life of the buyer. Once this is established it would be easy to make the sale.

My entrepreneurial mindset

These are just some of the things that I want to do in business, to be in business and to achieve my goals financial or otherwise.
Become a real estate agent, be involved in the real estate industry like Manny Villar. Be involved in banking like marketing loans, insurance and credit cards and forex. Set up a company for this, too. Be involved in selling cars, new or second hand, know about the mechanical side of it, car shampoo, tire black, accessories and the like. Food and fashion - culture. Do food dealerships, cook, sell clothes, flipflops, perfumes, set up a restaurant or restaurants in the future.
Things that need to be done:
Find friends who will help me in business. Find the business to learn, study. Study marketing.
What's so interesting about business is that it is about life and the experience of it. I sometimes go back in history and study how our ancestors have done business in the past. They just have markets. And they sell in these markets. Now, we have different avenues of selling including online in our high-tech world.
The problem is in business, I do not want to spend money. I just want to do it free and earn big bucks. If only I could do it that way. Maybe because I am an accountant so I tend to count the costs first. And the sales, since it isn't there yet are unaccountable yet except for projections which are dream figures as of the moment. I hope to learn all these in a couple of days so i could get started. I plan to learn all of these no matter how long as long as I finally arrive at the answers hopefully soon. So I need mentors.

My passions in life

I guess, I have been to easy. I've known from the start my passion that is communication arts. But didn't make that into a career. what if I suddenly make this change of paths and suddenly I would just pursue it. I hope I am still that genius. let's just hope for the better. I don't know how I can enter the world of communication arts, is it a job ad, a connection, attending a scriptwriting workshop, showing up for an audition. I seem to have lack of enthusiasm in pursuing this because maybe in my own way I have pursued it by attending Masscom class in Perpetual, attending a theater workshop with Repertory, auditioning in college for Peta, attempting to join Harlequin at La Salle, writing for the paper in Perpetual and writing for Plaridel and JPIA at La Salle. Those little things. Attending free photography workshop at Town Center and submitting resumes at jobstreet to ABS-CBN opening either as production assistant or accountant. I am semi-tired already. I have tried and have failed. But I guess, I like the challenge so I keep on going. I must find a hard enough reason to continue on doing this or else I would stop. Read a book on scriptwriting by Ricky Lee, Trip to Quiapo. Writing for children's books like Adarna or Lampara. Writing a romance novel. Writing for magazines and newspapers. Writing a blog. I must continue. Write a book or books. I also want to join writing clubs, associate with other writers and learn with them. I also need to study photography, filmmaking and directing. But first, I need to earn money. And that's what I am gonna talk about in my next articles.

The problems in today's world

What matters in the world today? To some, as long as you have money, you're earning, it is enough. I guess, what matters is the quality of life that you have in this world. The kind of relationships that you have. That's what really matters in life. We have dreams and we have problems. We should strive hard to achieve our dreams and try to solve the problems that life throws at us. God has put in our hearts the dreams that we have for ourselves and so with the challenges that come with it, we must try to solve our problems and achieve that dream that we have for ourselves. Relationships play a big part too in our lives. Is there such a thing as unsolvable problems. I guess not. You just have to put bigger faith in God. God is bigger than any problems and He is in control of everything in this world. Sometimes, that is quite hard to believe especially if you have your own problems but that is the bigger challenge. To be able to face life with faith. To believe in God as much as you can and to hope and pray to God for your lack of faith. You just wish to God that He will send you a person, a gift, who will make things work out for you. And you just wish to have fruitful relationships with other people so that you can say that everyday in your life counts. You just wish that your prayers will be answered. I guess, all in all, everybody has got problems but the miracle there is if people are gonna come together and lend a helping hand to someone who is in need. Like for me, i have a money problem. I just wish sometimes that God would send me a person who would hire me or give me a job, money, food for the table. I am hungry. But I guess, I don't announce that to the world ( except now in this blog) so nobody gives me money for food. I am sometimes afraid that in this world you cannot go around without money in your pocket and there are certain things that you choose not to do like accounting work that is freelance or selling outside going to strangers and asking for a sale, but I think I am most willing to do that once I go into sales, is there any other way? i have to take the challenge. This is what life is all about. Successful people have done it once in their lives why can't I? So you see, I need to be willing to give, to sacrifice, for love, for the family and be thankful for the blessings that come my way in this life. Poverty is a major problem in the Philippines and if only you can have sardines and noodles in your dinner table, which we sometimes do, you'd already have a feast if you'd cook 2 noodles with egg and open a can of sardines for two people plus rice plus water. Whew! Delicious and mouth watering. Sometimes, it's just tinapa. Sometimes, eggs. Sometimes tocino or longganisa. But, it's delicious and I thank God for all these blessings in our table. It's easy to work, mind you. What's so limiting is the budget that you need to have for your transportation and food allowance everytime you need to go out. I am still figuring out how to make do with that computation. If it costs P300 to go out daily to go on sales, then that would amount to P6000 for 20 days or one month. That's my out of pocket cost for doing sales. What if that money does not return. What if it doesn't turn to sales? So what do I do now? Nobody gives me a job anymore because they think I am unqualified based on what is written on my resume. They have been doing that for the past 12 years. So what will be the difference now? Hope. Prayers. Faith. And the will to go on. The will to continue with life. That tomorrow will be different from yesterday. And that God will answer all our prayers in a way that will be advantageous for everyone.

How to meet a guy

Someone once said that to meet a guy you must constantly think of him - the one. It never worked out for me. Or maybe, I just didn't do my assignment. Maybe, I didn't attract him. Hope to meet you in my dreams and hope to have kids with you someday. If I wouldn't meet you in life, then maybe someday in heaven. But what will I do the rest of my life here on earth? I don't know?

Cool doodles

I wish to start writing with blogs. Then, write children's books, scripts and books. Maybe write for magazines and newspapers also. Study acting, filmmaking and directing. Writing too. Then go into business during my spare time, lots of different, diverse business. Spend a lot of time with other people, get to know them. Maybe, become an athlete too. These are just plans, I don't know how to materialize them and monetize them. Money is important. Life is important. Relationships in business, family, friends are important. You just wish to feel good about your life. And for me, it is about God fulfilling His promises towards me and giving me a full life as He promised in the bible. What makes you feel good. Career. Love. Family. Business. Religion. Friends. Money. It's all a search of what you want to do with your life. Hopefully, you bring something beautiful into the world as you take this journey and you help other people along the way. I think i have been doing that for the past years of my life that is why I am saying nothing is wasted. Not everything is about jobs or money. Sometimes, you just need God to guide you in your life, how you live your life everyday and hopefully you don't do something bad to other people. What is in your heart? What is in your mind. I cannot say that my life is complete but you know sometimes it is complete without money. And I am very thankful for that. Knowing that you have done good to people. I just wish that people wouldn't take advantage of one's weakness and put it for their own selfish use. I wish God would protect weak people from those who pounce on them and try to kill their spirit. Love should be the ultimate goal in life. God is love. I pray for a miracle!

Cool outings

I cherish the outings that I have with my mom and my aunt. I am trying to rebuild the relationship that I have with my family. Sometimes, you just go to what is important in your life and you don't plan things to happen. You just spend time with them and even though you plan to sometimes just spend time working in the office for let's say 12 hours, you still long for the vacation that you're used to not because of vacation's sake but because you enjoy spending time with your family and take good care of them. My mom is in retiring age and I hope to be with her more but now at the present I am gearing towards working coz I need to have money so I would be spending my offtime with her and spend the rest working. I am not used to that anymore. I am more used to 4 hour work day and spending the rest for leisure time, valuable time to be spent with family minus money. How to go about it. I've been used to this and it was not planned it just happened and I guess in life things are just the way they are. You don't even know why they consistently hesitate to hire you. Nothing's wasted anyway, much so with time. I have done incredible things with the time I had and I don't know if people will understand especially those who have dedicated their lives in working but somehow I am not even proud that I am unemployed, but I am proud of the things that I have achieved in not working for 10-12 years now. It's not a habit but to find yourself relaxing is one of the very important achievements I've had in all those 12 years. If you're gonna work accounting work at a young age while you have other dreams, dreams of becoming an actress or an athlete, it seems not worth it. You have to give in to your passions. Only, I have not achieved my dream for it seems far fetched. Now, I was wondering whether I'd still be an athlete or an actor or maybe study directing and filmmaking. I want to study too writing. All the things you could dream of in your life. I should achieve them. Accounting just went first. And everything just didn't fall into place yet. Is it ever too late? Let me see with the circumstances that I have in my life right now. Am I really for business? I guess, I am for the arts. If only I would try one more time. Just one more time. Plus, I gotta work on my future family plans too. I am getting older, am I? Anyway, money is important and that's why I try to solve it everyday. It is just too hard. God, grant me your will, whatever it is, for as long as I trust in You, You would give to me what is best for me. May I be able to overcome these problems and become a winner!

Cool happenings

I recently went to the GoNegosyo Summit and learned about different businesses. I saw Loren Legarda, Cynthia Villar, Gladys Reyes, Marides Fernando, Vicky Belo, Pacita Juan and heard the voice of Eric Santos sad to say I didn't see him, I was listening to a talk in the seminar room.

I similarly went to a negosyo fair by Buy and Sell and learned about different businesses and Ultima Entrepinoy meat processing skills and car shampoo mixing seminars all at affordable prices.

At a mall nearby, I chanced upon a new friend which I think is awesome because I need to meet new friends that way. She just talked to me about business in the mall in a few seconds or very few minutes and we're off. I hope to meet new friends in this way because I tend to be always with old friends and not engaging anymore to things that would add life to me. I hope I wouldn't be boring in my life anymore always measuring everything in terms of what I could afford and where I could afford to go to. I always maximize my few pesos of allowance from my mom and something's got to return.

I think this time I am really gonna try to sell something. That's a good start. And when I get the feel of it then maybe it will become a learned skill and then I will build my businesses. Hopefully.

I am still gonna write and attend a few seminars which I could afford and let's just see where the money will roll.

I need to make relationships for I am very interested in them and making the most out of my life to the points where I could afford it.

Judging on what I have or ask from my mom, I do enjoy everything that is made available to me like magazines or books, cable and internet, malling, newspapers and conversations with my mom and some family and friends. I just wish to continue with the flow of life and I feel that I have to do something or at least I could quit trying to prove something and just go with the flow of life.

Nothing has changed, making money is still a challenge for me cause for me I don't want to use any of my money for starting business. I want to use other people's money. I find it expensive and costly. If only I could go out in one day with P0 in my wallet, I will. And then, make something like P10000 in a day's work. I would be very happy with that. Is happiness connected with the money you make. I bet it is. But it should not always be the case. Earning just to have the comforts for me is enough. If it is very hard to earn money then that would be enough. But to earn a million per month is something that would make me very happy and rich. That means security for me. So if I have only a few pesos won't I feel secure? Maybe, if earning more money means security for you but to have no money is like walking in a strange land where people adore money because you cannot do anything without money, have you tried that? You cannot have shelter, food and drink and even clothes without money so money is very important.

In that case, I should learn to ask for money. Not work. I am working. With this blog. With the journal I am writing. With my mom. With the things that I read and watch on tv. With my family. With my friends. But asking for money. I should learn how to ask money from strangers, the group of people that would become my co-workers or business friends. I work but don't get paid. For example, I study accounting and business but nobody pays me. It should not be for free because I exert effort in doing those things. I am working. I am preparing the soil. I am planting the seeds. I am watering the plants. I gotta start with something. Something i am willing to give. i hope to do everything that is out there for me to choose from.
I gotta start with something. I gotta learn how to ask for money. I reason out with my mom when i could have used that sense in a talk that I could deliver to teach other people or to write books which I could sell for a price.

What I am praying for is to have the initiative and the creativity to start on something. I need to learn how to ask for money. How's P100000 for a talk. Or P500 for a book on business. Or a million on a business advice. I gotta learn how to ask for money.